Will DurantThinkers

Arrangement is the only thing that's ever new.

Culture is suggestive of agriculture whereas civilization is suggestive of the city. In the city are gathered, rightly or wrongly, the wealth and brains produced in the countryside. Civilization begins in the peasant's hut, but it comes to flower only in the towns.

Desire is a thing operating on this logic: we don't want a thing because we have found a reason for it; we find a reason for it because we want it.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Freedom is a promoting cultural activity whereas civilization is an ordering structure.

History is mostly guessing and the rest is prejudice.

Hope is, along with fears or wishes, unfortunately that with which most people think rather than with their minds.

The Minority is that which makes the political machine triumphs insofar as it consists of a united minority acting against a divided majority.

The Political machine is successful because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.